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Image copyright Varkey Foundation Image caption Lewis Mizen, Suzanna Barna and Kevin Trejos wanted to take guns out of school rather than add more Students who survived the Florida school shooting have strongly rejected the idea of arming teachers. Suzanna Barna, a pupil from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School where ...

As a University of Missouri graduate and sports fan, I am admittedly used to not having the nice things in life. We lose, and we do it in the most painful way possible: The fifth down against Colorado in 1990, the Norfolk State upset in 2012, the coast-to-coast Tyus Edney ...

TAMPA — It took two days, but Manny Machado finally addressed Aaron Judge’s ill-advised free-agent pitch.
“I think it was just blown out of proportion,” Machado told reporters, according to the Baltimore Sun. “I’m always going to back him up. He’s a great kid and has a bright ...

Facebook announced late Friday that it had suspended the account of Strategic Communication Laboratories, and its political data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica — which used Facebook data to target voters for President Donald Trump’s campaign in the 2016 election. In a statement released by Paul Grewal, the company’s vice president ...

Image copyright Getty Images Children’s habits are changing. Where once a toddler might have played with bricks, now they are more likely to play on an iPad. Such devices can provide a welcome distraction for busy parents and an attractive source of sensory stimulation for young children but does it ...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Think of it as a high-stakes game of chicken. Personality clashes and policy differences among the Republicans who control the Legislature are putting Gov. Scott Walker priorities in peril with the session set to end next week. Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald and Assembly Speaker Robin ...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Wyoming lawmakers agreed to more than $20 million cuts to public education but went ahead with spending on new construction projects before finally adjourning for the year. The four-week legislative session went nearly a week later than originally planned while lawmakers grappled with even modest measures ...

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) — A new study finds that Indiana is one of a handful of states that have seen rising enrollment in college foreign language courses. The study conducted by the Modern Language Association shows that while enrollment in language courses other than English fell 9.2 percent at the ...

Mayor de Blasio vowed to revive his stalled project to remake admissions to the city’s elite specialized high schools on Friday, after new admissions data once again revealed dismal diversity stats for the schools.
De Blasio campaigned for mayor in 2013 on a promise to admit more black ...

Utility workers in the Netherlands struck gold while laying drain pipe at a construction site earlier this month.
The employees of Oasen, a water supply company, unearthed a collection of nearly 500 coins in a glazed cooking pot dating back to the 15th century, the NL Times ...